Los Angeles nonprofit Jewish Story Partners announced $450,000 in new grants to fund 18 different documentary projects this week.
Founded in 2021 with support from Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg, the group seeks “to stimulate and support the highest caliber independent films that expand the Jewish story.” Since its inception, Jsp has awarded approximately $2.5 million in grants.
The new slate of recipients includes filmmakers like Anne Aghion, Dan Habib (“Intelligent Lives”), Mark Jonathan Harris, Rachel Leah Jones (“Advocate”), Jacob Kornbluth and Marlene McCurtis (“Women on Death Row”).
“At a time when nuance is sorely needed in public discourse, we’re proud to support films that elucidate complex realities and reflect a range of Jewish stories, perspectives and experiences,” said Jsp co-executive directors Caroline Libresco and Roberta Grossman.
Upon the grant awarding, Jsp leadership said that in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, “[We] renew our faith in film as an indispensable...
Founded in 2021 with support from Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg, the group seeks “to stimulate and support the highest caliber independent films that expand the Jewish story.” Since its inception, Jsp has awarded approximately $2.5 million in grants.
The new slate of recipients includes filmmakers like Anne Aghion, Dan Habib (“Intelligent Lives”), Mark Jonathan Harris, Rachel Leah Jones (“Advocate”), Jacob Kornbluth and Marlene McCurtis (“Women on Death Row”).
“At a time when nuance is sorely needed in public discourse, we’re proud to support films that elucidate complex realities and reflect a range of Jewish stories, perspectives and experiences,” said Jsp co-executive directors Caroline Libresco and Roberta Grossman.
Upon the grant awarding, Jsp leadership said that in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, “[We] renew our faith in film as an indispensable...
- 12/15/2023
- by Matt Donnelly
- Variety Film + TV
Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress, as presented by the creators themselves. At the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Diamond Diplomacy
Logline: Devotion to baseball has been tossed between the U.S. and Japan since the late 1800s, and mirrors profound shifts in diplomacy between the two nations. “Diamond Diplomacy” charts this story revealing pivotal moments of often-controversial duality.
Elevator Pitch:
Baseball is the national pastime of two very different countries. “Diamond Diplomacy” is the never-before-told story about the dramatic ups and downs of U.S. and Japan diplomacy, since 1872, through the lens of a shared love of baseball. Several players and managers (including Babe Ruth and Lefty O’Doul) have been important ambassadors through baseball.
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Diamond Diplomacy
Logline: Devotion to baseball has been tossed between the U.S. and Japan since the late 1800s, and mirrors profound shifts in diplomacy between the two nations. “Diamond Diplomacy” charts this story revealing pivotal moments of often-controversial duality.
Elevator Pitch:
Baseball is the national pastime of two very different countries. “Diamond Diplomacy” is the never-before-told story about the dramatic ups and downs of U.S. and Japan diplomacy, since 1872, through the lens of a shared love of baseball. Several players and managers (including Babe Ruth and Lefty O’Doul) have been important ambassadors through baseball.
- 10/24/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
With each new month comes the same old lesson about catching all your favorite movies before they leave Netflix. If you haven’t watched The Naked Gun yet, you should do that is what I’m saying. But what do you get in return? A lot actually! We get the original series Fuller House and Judd Apatow’s Love. They’re also adding the final season of Mad Men, the first season of Better Call Saul, and one of the most popular teen movies of all time, Cruel Intentions.
On the Amazon Prime front, check out below to see what you’ll be able to stream for free and what’s going to have a cost. Let’s watch!
All Title Dates are Subject to Change
Netflix U.S. Release Dates Only
Available 2/1/16
A Picture of You (2014)
Armageddon (1998)
Better Call Saul: Season 1
Charlie’s Angels (2000)
Collateral Damage (2002)
Cruel Intentions (1999)
A Faster Horse...
On the Amazon Prime front, check out below to see what you’ll be able to stream for free and what’s going to have a cost. Let’s watch!
All Title Dates are Subject to Change
Netflix U.S. Release Dates Only
Available 2/1/16
A Picture of You (2014)
Armageddon (1998)
Better Call Saul: Season 1
Charlie’s Angels (2000)
Collateral Damage (2002)
Cruel Intentions (1999)
A Faster Horse...
- 2/1/2016
- by Graham McMorrow
- City of Films
HBO Documentary Films has picked up U.S. TV rights to "Jim: The James Foley Story," which will premiere in the U.S. Documentary Competition at Sundance later this month. The film, from director Brian Oakes ("Freakonomics," "Inequality for All"), examines the life, death, and legacy of journalist James Foley, who was murdered by Isis in 2014. "Jim" will air on HBO Saturday, February 6. Read More: "Sundance Programmers Unveil, Discuss 2016 Competition, Next Lineups (Exclusive)" Conducting interviews with Foley's family, friends, and colleagues—and unearthing new details of Foley's captivity from fellow hostages—Oakes, a childhood friend of Foley's, presents one of the most in-depth treatments of the story since Foley was kidnapped in Syria on Thanksgiving Day, 2012. "Jim" is produced by Eva Lipman, George Kunhardt, and Teddy Kunhardt and executive produced by Peter Kunhardt. The deal was negotiated with HBO by...
- 1/5/2016
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
After haunting moviegoers this spring, the relentless entity in David Robert Mitchell's It Follows is going to make house calls this summer, as Anchor Bay Entertainment, RADiUS, and Dimension are releasing It Follows on Blu-ray and DVD on July 14th:
Press Release -- "Beverly Hills, Calif. – May 19, 2015 – The critically acclaimed breakout movie of the year, It Follows arrives on Blu-ray™ and DVD July 14th from Anchor Bay Entertainment, RADiUS and Dimension. Dubbed “the best horror film in over a decade”*, It Follows is directed by David Robert Mitchell (The Myth of the American Sleepover), and stars Maika Monroe (upcoming Independence Day 2, The Guest), Keir Gilchrist (It’s Kind of a Funny Story, “United States of Tara”), Daniel Zovatto (Beneath, Innocence, Laggies) and Jake Weary (Altitude, Fred).
One of the highest grossing independent films of the year so far, It Follows is credited with ushering in a new era of indie film success,...
Press Release -- "Beverly Hills, Calif. – May 19, 2015 – The critically acclaimed breakout movie of the year, It Follows arrives on Blu-ray™ and DVD July 14th from Anchor Bay Entertainment, RADiUS and Dimension. Dubbed “the best horror film in over a decade”*, It Follows is directed by David Robert Mitchell (The Myth of the American Sleepover), and stars Maika Monroe (upcoming Independence Day 2, The Guest), Keir Gilchrist (It’s Kind of a Funny Story, “United States of Tara”), Daniel Zovatto (Beneath, Innocence, Laggies) and Jake Weary (Altitude, Fred).
One of the highest grossing independent films of the year so far, It Follows is credited with ushering in a new era of indie film success,...
- 5/19/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Round-Up: L.A. Slasher Theatrical Release Details, Monsters: Dark Continent Blu-ray, Helix Cancelled
In our latest round-up, we take a look at the theatrical release details for L.A. Slasher, Anchor Bay Entertainment's Blu-ray release of Monsters: Dark Continent, and the news of Helix being cancelled by Syfy.
L.A. Slasher: Press Release -- "Los Angeles, CA (April 27, 2015) - Archstone Distribution has announced that the horror-dark comedy feature L.A. Slasher, directed by Martin Owen and produced by Jeffrey Wright and Daniel Sollinger, will receive a North American theatrical release starting June 12 in select AMC Theatres.
“We are very excited to take L.A. Slasher to the silver screen," Archstone Distribution's President & CEO Brady Bowen stated. "It is a highly entertaining film with a unique voice that we know audiences are going to love!”
L.A. Slasher Producer Daniel Sollinger remarked, “My team and I are thrilled to be working with Archstone, as they have a steady track record for bringing high quality films to audiences worldwide.
L.A. Slasher: Press Release -- "Los Angeles, CA (April 27, 2015) - Archstone Distribution has announced that the horror-dark comedy feature L.A. Slasher, directed by Martin Owen and produced by Jeffrey Wright and Daniel Sollinger, will receive a North American theatrical release starting June 12 in select AMC Theatres.
“We are very excited to take L.A. Slasher to the silver screen," Archstone Distribution's President & CEO Brady Bowen stated. "It is a highly entertaining film with a unique voice that we know audiences are going to love!”
L.A. Slasher Producer Daniel Sollinger remarked, “My team and I are thrilled to be working with Archstone, as they have a steady track record for bringing high quality films to audiences worldwide.
- 4/30/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
We're less than two weeks away from the start of the Stanley Film Festival and it's been officially announced that Tom Quinn will be the recipient of their Visionary Award. We also have details on the festival's panels and jurors:
April 20, 2014 (Denver, Co) - The Stanley Film Festival (Sff) produced by the Denver Film Society (Dfs) and presented by Chiller, announced today it will honor Tom Quinn, co-president of RADiUS-twc as its 2015 Visionary Award Winner. Quinn is behind this year’s breakout horror title It Follows as well as other genre heavy hitters such as Snowpiercer, Blue Ruin and Only God Forgives. The Visionary award is given to a figure in contemporary horror who is making forward-thinking contributions that elevate the genre and provides a platform for new, innovative artists to create work. Previous recipients include Daniel Noah, Josh C. Waller and Elijah Wood, co-founders of SpectreVision (2014) and Eli Roth (2013). Quinn,...
April 20, 2014 (Denver, Co) - The Stanley Film Festival (Sff) produced by the Denver Film Society (Dfs) and presented by Chiller, announced today it will honor Tom Quinn, co-president of RADiUS-twc as its 2015 Visionary Award Winner. Quinn is behind this year’s breakout horror title It Follows as well as other genre heavy hitters such as Snowpiercer, Blue Ruin and Only God Forgives. The Visionary award is given to a figure in contemporary horror who is making forward-thinking contributions that elevate the genre and provides a platform for new, innovative artists to create work. Previous recipients include Daniel Noah, Josh C. Waller and Elijah Wood, co-founders of SpectreVision (2014) and Eli Roth (2013). Quinn,...
- 4/20/2015
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Do you have nightmares about Bill Lumbergh telling you to put new cover sheets on your Tps reports? For some, the corporate cubicle setting is as horrifying as the creepy boiler rooms that Freddy Krueger haunts in the A Nightmare on Elm Street movies. Script excerpts and storyboards for an imagined tenth film in the Elm Street franchise show Freddy tormenting a coma patient by placing him in a mind-numbing office environment where meaningless meetings, tear-inducing small talk, and countless hours of hellish tasks reign supreme, with no escape in sight. Also included in our latest round-up are Blu-ray / DVD release details and cover art for the Salma Hayek-starring Everly and information on the 20 recently announced Star Wars books that will take place in the time period between Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi and Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens.
A Nightmare on Elm Street...
A Nightmare on Elm Street...
- 3/10/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Robert Reich must be appalled. Reich, an economist who’s served in the administrations of three presidents and an outspoken critic of the roles of governments and corporations in furthering economic inequality, is also one of the more prominent speakers in vitamin salesman and natural-medicine guru Gary Null’s movie Poverty Inc., which covers much of the same ground as Reich’s own 2013 documentary, Inequality for All.
Null’s movie — not to be confused with another 2014 release of the same title from Michael Matheson Miller that is a critique of global charity programs — utterly fails to inform or guide. Every speaker seems to traffic in exclamation points, pretty much the only points that are made. The movie is a nightmare of at...
Null’s movie — not to be confused with another 2014 release of the same title from Michael Matheson Miller that is a critique of global charity programs — utterly fails to inform or guide. Every speaker seems to traffic in exclamation points, pretty much the only points that are made. The movie is a nightmare of at...
- 12/3/2014
- Village Voice
Cph:dox has broken its own audience record for the 12th consecutive year.
This year’s tally was 83,900 visitors, up 20% from 70,100 last year. Of those, 3,586 were online views.
There were 1,356 delegate industry visitors.
Tine Fischer, festival director at Cph:dox, said: “Cph:dox has both audience- and industry-wise experienced an outstanding year. We are extremely happy, but hands down the most important thing that has happened this year without comparison, is that the festival has really taken the documentary into an active social and political space with its new project Megatrends. The project is not limited to journalistic criticism and analysis, but puts more focus on how we can get an active dialogue going on some of the most important global issues and challenges. The interaction, innovation and strengthening of an active democratic dialogue have been the objectives and we think it has had a flying start. The project is intended as a recurring initiative and we are looking forward...
This year’s tally was 83,900 visitors, up 20% from 70,100 last year. Of those, 3,586 were online views.
There were 1,356 delegate industry visitors.
Tine Fischer, festival director at Cph:dox, said: “Cph:dox has both audience- and industry-wise experienced an outstanding year. We are extremely happy, but hands down the most important thing that has happened this year without comparison, is that the festival has really taken the documentary into an active social and political space with its new project Megatrends. The project is not limited to journalistic criticism and analysis, but puts more focus on how we can get an active dialogue going on some of the most important global issues and challenges. The interaction, innovation and strengthening of an active democratic dialogue have been the objectives and we think it has had a flying start. The project is intended as a recurring initiative and we are looking forward...
- 11/25/2014
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Birdman, Fury and Leviathan among main competition titles; Roland Joffé to preside over main jury.
Alejandro G Ińárritu, Yimou Zhang, Mike Leigh and Jean-Marc Vallée are among the directors with films screening in competition at the 22nd Camerimage (Nov 15-22), the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography.
The main competition at the festival, held in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz, comprises:
Alejandro G Ińárritu’s Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance); USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki
Yimou Zhang’s Coming Home (Gui lai); China, 2014; Cinematographer: Zhao Xiaoding
Richard Raymond’s Desert Dancer; UK, 2014; Cinematographer: Carlos Catalán Alucha
Lech J. Majewski’s Field of Dogs - Onirica (Onirica - Psie pole); Poland, 2014; Cinematographers: Paweł Tybora and Lech J. Majewski
Krzysztof Zanussi’s Foreign Body (Obce cialo); Poland, Italy, Russia, 2014; Cinematographer: Piotr Niemyjski
David Ayer’s Fury; USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Roman Vasyanov
Tate Taylor’s Get on Up; USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Stephen Goldblatt
Łukasz Palkowski’s Gods (Bogowie); Poland, 2014; Cinematographer:...
Alejandro G Ińárritu, Yimou Zhang, Mike Leigh and Jean-Marc Vallée are among the directors with films screening in competition at the 22nd Camerimage (Nov 15-22), the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography.
The main competition at the festival, held in the Polish city of Bydgoszcz, comprises:
Alejandro G Ińárritu’s Birdman (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance); USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki
Yimou Zhang’s Coming Home (Gui lai); China, 2014; Cinematographer: Zhao Xiaoding
Richard Raymond’s Desert Dancer; UK, 2014; Cinematographer: Carlos Catalán Alucha
Lech J. Majewski’s Field of Dogs - Onirica (Onirica - Psie pole); Poland, 2014; Cinematographers: Paweł Tybora and Lech J. Majewski
Krzysztof Zanussi’s Foreign Body (Obce cialo); Poland, Italy, Russia, 2014; Cinematographer: Piotr Niemyjski
David Ayer’s Fury; USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Roman Vasyanov
Tate Taylor’s Get on Up; USA, 2014; Cinematographer: Stephen Goldblatt
Łukasz Palkowski’s Gods (Bogowie); Poland, 2014; Cinematographer:...
- 10/31/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Polish film festival sets competition juries; Roland Joffe to preside over main competition.
Camerimage (Nov 15-22), the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, has set an impressive roster of jurors for its various competition categories.
The Killing Fields director Roland Joffe will preside over the main competition jury, which incldues cinematographers Christian Berger and Manuel Alberto Claro.
Caleb Deschanel has been appointed president of the Polish Films Competition.
The full list of jurors is below.
Main Competition
Roland Joffé – Jury President (director, producer; The Killing Fields, The Mission, Vatel)
Christian Berger (cinematographer; The Piano Teacher, Hidden, The White Ribbon)
Ryszard Bugajski (director, screenwriter; Interrogation, General Nil, The Closed Circuit)
Ryszard Horowitz (photographer)
David Gropman (cinematographer; The Cider House Rules, Chocolat, Life of Pi)
Arthur Reinhart (cinematographer, producer; Crows, Tristan + Isolde, Venice)
Oliver Stapleton (cinematographer; The Cider House Rules, Pay It Forward, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark)
Manuel Alberto Claro (cinematographer; Reconstruction, Melancholia, Nymphomaniac...
Camerimage (Nov 15-22), the International Film Festival of the Art of Cinematography, has set an impressive roster of jurors for its various competition categories.
The Killing Fields director Roland Joffe will preside over the main competition jury, which incldues cinematographers Christian Berger and Manuel Alberto Claro.
Caleb Deschanel has been appointed president of the Polish Films Competition.
The full list of jurors is below.
Main Competition
Roland Joffé – Jury President (director, producer; The Killing Fields, The Mission, Vatel)
Christian Berger (cinematographer; The Piano Teacher, Hidden, The White Ribbon)
Ryszard Bugajski (director, screenwriter; Interrogation, General Nil, The Closed Circuit)
Ryszard Horowitz (photographer)
David Gropman (cinematographer; The Cider House Rules, Chocolat, Life of Pi)
Arthur Reinhart (cinematographer, producer; Crows, Tristan + Isolde, Venice)
Oliver Stapleton (cinematographer; The Cider House Rules, Pay It Forward, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark)
Manuel Alberto Claro (cinematographer; Reconstruction, Melancholia, Nymphomaniac...
- 10/31/2014
- by andreas.wiseman@screendaily.com (Andreas Wiseman)
- ScreenDaily
One of my favorite new films, Blue Ruin by director Jeremy Saulnier(Murder Party) is finally coming home to Blu-ray and DVD from Anchor Bay and Radius TWC. Blue Ruin is a slow-burning, gritty, brutal, and realistic revenge film, about a man, who after experiencing a traumatic family tragedy, lets his despair destroy his life. Living the life of a bum, he learns that the person responsible for the tragic event that took away his life, is being released from prison. The character of Dwight, played by Macon Blair, that also appeared in Saulnier’s Murder Party, packs up what little shit he has, and makes his way to the prison where the release is happening, so he can find a way to get the revenge he feels that he is owed. If you like revenge movies, especially those that are executed perfectly, then Blue Ruin is a film you...
- 5/29/2014
- by Shawn Savage
- The Liberal Dead
Fungus Among Us: Dosa Makes Friends With The Matsutake
Though the name Sara Dosa may be new to some, the fledgling director already has some striking credits to her name, having produced both Jacob Kornbluth’s disheartening Inequality for All and Petra Costa’s heartbreaking Elena. In her own sumptuous docu-debut, the heart-healing propensity of the wilderness is embraced by a pair of men whose disparate lives have been brought together in symbiosis by the solace of mushroom hunting in the thick overgrowth of Chemult, Oregon. Their minds soothed by the silence, the solitude and the rewards of finding the elusive and valuable matsutake growing underwood, Kouy, who lived through the horrors of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and Roger, who served as a sniper in Vietnam, became unlikely friends after finding they share, not only a love of the forest, but the mental and physical repercussions of war. With sombrely tinged humor,...
Though the name Sara Dosa may be new to some, the fledgling director already has some striking credits to her name, having produced both Jacob Kornbluth’s disheartening Inequality for All and Petra Costa’s heartbreaking Elena. In her own sumptuous docu-debut, the heart-healing propensity of the wilderness is embraced by a pair of men whose disparate lives have been brought together in symbiosis by the solace of mushroom hunting in the thick overgrowth of Chemult, Oregon. Their minds soothed by the silence, the solitude and the rewards of finding the elusive and valuable matsutake growing underwood, Kouy, who lived through the horrors of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, and Roger, who served as a sniper in Vietnam, became unlikely friends after finding they share, not only a love of the forest, but the mental and physical repercussions of war. With sombrely tinged humor,...
- 5/7/2014
- by Jordan M. Smith
- IONCINEMA.com
It began as a Kickstarter campaign, raising $43,406, and now Alan Hicks' documentary Keep On Keepin' On has won the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival and been picked up by Radius-twc for distribution later this year. Produced by Quincy Jones you know there is going to be an Oscar push for this one, which comes with the following synopsis: In his melodic debut, Australian director Hicks spent four years following the charming and sometimes poignant mentorship between jazz-legend Clark Terry and blind piano prodigy, Justin Kaulflin, during a pivotal moment in each of their lives. At eighty-nine years old, 'Ct' has played alongside Duke Ellington and Count Basie; his pupils include Miles Davis and Quincy Jones, but his most unlikely friendship is with Justin, a 23-year-old with uncanny talent but debilitating nerves. As Justin prepares for a competition that could jumpstart his budding career, Ct's failing health threatens his own.
- 4/28/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Each Monday we present you with the most up-to-date list of the top 10 (indie) movies in the iTunes store, combining rentals and purchases. Read More: Interview with "12 O'Clock Boys" Director Lofty Nathan This week, in its second week on iTunes, J.C. Chandor's "All is Lost" remains in the #1 spot. Joining the list this week is Lofty Nathan's well reviewed documentary "12 O'Clock Boys" and "Grand Piano," which is a pre-theatrical release. The documentary "Inequality for All" re-joins the list now that it's on sale for 99 cents. The top 10 indies in iTunes are listed below (number represents North American gross, where applicable): 1. All is Lost (Roadside Attractions, $6,232,200) 2. Enough Said (Fox Searchlight, $17,550,872) 3. Afternoon Delight (The Film Arcade, $174,496) 4. 12 O'Clock Boys (Oscilloscope, $51,495) 5. The Spectacular Now (A24, $6,854,611) 6. At Middleton (Anchor Bay Films,...
- 2/3/2014
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
Before the deal making gets underway at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, here is a review of how the films from last year’s festival fared at the box office. VOD receipts aren’t part of this, and I will add those I get. But you can see that buyers might not want to let the thin air here get the best of them. Sundance 2013 Acquisitions and Box Office Title Distributor-Buyer Rights Type Acquisition (or M.G.) * Domestic B.O. * Don Jon+ Relativity U.S. 4 24.5 The Way, Way Back Fox Searchlight Domestic, some territories 10 21.5 Jobs+ Open Road service deal – 16.1 Fruitvale Station Weinstein English Speaking 2+ 16.1 Before Midnight Sony Classics Domestic and U.K. mid seven figures 8.1 The Spectacular Now A24 Domestic – 6.9 20 Feet From Stardom Radius TWC Domestic low seven figures 4.8 In a World… Roadside Attractions/Sony Wwide U.S../Intl. – 3.0 The Kings of Summer (aka Toy’s House) CBS/Qed domestic/Intl.
- 1/17/2014
- by MIKE FLEMING JR
- Deadline
We live in an era of haves and have-nots, the fabulously wealthy and the impoverished. While the middle class still constitutes the majority of society, it is a shrinking part of the pie. Also read: NBCUniversal News Invests in Mobile News Start-Up NowThis News Famed economist Robert Reich recently tackled the dangers of income inequality and the erosion of the middle class in “Inequality for All.” This inequity also spawned the Occupy Wall Street movement, and is one reason for the ongoing debate about the minimum wage. The middle class is hurting in entertainment and media too. TheWrap‘s Lucas Shaw explains how.
- 1/14/2014
- by Wrap Staff
- The Wrap
With this year's edition of the Sundance Film Festival about to kick off, it's the perfect time to watch (or re-watch) last year's crop of films. Here's where you can find 20 of the films which screened in competition at last year's Sundance Film Festival online. Also, keep in mind that "The Square" will be available on Netflix beginning Friday, January 17. Click the title of the film to go to the site where you can watch it. Films are listed below in alphabetical order. Ain't Them Bodies Saints (iTunes) A Teacher (iTunes) Blackfish (Netflix) Blue Caprice (iTunes) C.O.G. (Netflix) Computer Chess (Netlix) Concussion (iTunes) Crystal Fairy (Netflix) Read More: 6 Oscar Shortlisted Features Docs Now Online Cutie and the Boxer (Netflix) Dirty Wars (Netflix) Escape From Tomorrow (iTunes) Fruitvale Station (iTunes) Inequality for All (iTunes) Mother of George (iTunes) Newlyweeds (iTunes) The Spectacular Now (iTunes) This is Martin Bonner (Netflix) Touchy Feely.
- 1/13/2014
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
Each Monday we present you with the most up-to-date list of the top 10 (indie) movies in the iTunes store (combining rentals and purchases). This week, "I Give It A Year" and "Closed Circuit" top the list. It's worth noting that "I Give It A Year" was an iTunes Movie of the Week and was on sale for 99 cents, which, no doubt, helped to boost its popularity. Thee top 10 indies in iTunes are listed below (number represents North American gross, where applicable): 1. Give It A Year (Magnolia Pictures, $34,657) 2. Closed Circuit (Focus Features, $5,750,401) 3. Thanks for Sharing (Roadside Attractions, $1,065,881) 4. Murph: The Protector (Starz/Anchor Bay, N/A) 5. A Single Shot (Tribeca Film, $18,642) 6. The Way, Way Back (Fox Searchlight, $21,502,690) 7. Inequality for All (Radius-twc, $1,194,500) 8. Enough Said (Fox Searchlight, $17,517,110) 9. The Spectacular...
- 1/13/2014
- by Paula Bernstein
- Indiewire
Moviefone's Top DVD of the Week
"The Act of Killing"
What's It About? In director Joshua Oppenheimer's compelling, disturbing documentary, Indonesian gangsters like Anwar Congo recreate their crimes against humanity in the style of the movies they love. Besides the horrific actions they committed in the '60s as part of Indonesia's Pancasila Youth, what's particularly shocking is their crimes are completely open knowledge, and even celebrated in Indonesia.
Why We're In: "The Act of Killing" is short-listed for the Oscars, but it's definitely not for the squeamish.
Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week
"Throne of Blood (Criterion)"
What's It About? Kurosawa's take on "Macbeth" takes place in feudal Japan, and stars the legendary Toshiro Mifune as an ambitious warrior looking to take over Spider's Web Castle. Isuzu Yamada appears as his Lady Macbeth-style wife.
Why We're In: Like all Criterion releases, this is jam-packed with extras, like two...
"The Act of Killing"
What's It About? In director Joshua Oppenheimer's compelling, disturbing documentary, Indonesian gangsters like Anwar Congo recreate their crimes against humanity in the style of the movies they love. Besides the horrific actions they committed in the '60s as part of Indonesia's Pancasila Youth, what's particularly shocking is their crimes are completely open knowledge, and even celebrated in Indonesia.
Why We're In: "The Act of Killing" is short-listed for the Oscars, but it's definitely not for the squeamish.
Moviefone's Top Blu-ray of the Week
"Throne of Blood (Criterion)"
What's It About? Kurosawa's take on "Macbeth" takes place in feudal Japan, and stars the legendary Toshiro Mifune as an ambitious warrior looking to take over Spider's Web Castle. Isuzu Yamada appears as his Lady Macbeth-style wife.
Why We're In: Like all Criterion releases, this is jam-packed with extras, like two...
- 1/7/2014
- by Jenni Miller
- Moviefone
Throne of Blood (Criterion Collection) I posted my review of Criterion's Blu-ray upgrade of Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood just yesterday. It was the first time I'd watched the film since first seeing it six years ago and really enjoyed it more than I did that first time, but I think that's just how it goes when you try and dive head first into these classic films. They're classics for a reason and sometimes it will hit you immediately and other times it takes a second viewing and just more film watching experience. For me Throne of Blood fell into the latter category and I'm glad it did. It doesn't always work out that way, but it's always better to find love in something rather than any measure of disappointment. You can read my full review here.
The Act of Killing I never wrote a review of The Act of Killing,...
The Act of Killing I never wrote a review of The Act of Killing,...
- 1/7/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Well, after we had the temerity to predict the Oscar shortlist, we didn't do half bad. Of the 15 documentary features selected by the beleagered Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences documentary branch--out of 147 qualifying films that they were supposed to watch on screeners--our top five all made the list. We listed Academy shortlisted docs "God Loves Uganda" and "Life According to Sam" as long shots, and failed to predict that "First Cousin Once Removed," "Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer," or Sebastian Junger's HBO eulogy for his fallen comrade, "Which Way is the Front Line from Here: The Life and Death of Tim Hetherington," would make the shortlist. Among the films we predicted that didn't make the cut are Sundance abortion doc "After Tiller," show business behind-the-scenes doc "Casting By," Errol Morris's high-profile interview with Donald Rumsfeld, "The Unknown Known," and AIDS story "Blood Brother." (We listed "Inequality for All,...
- 12/3/2013
- by Anne Thompson
- Thompson on Hollywood
Another busy week of movie watching although this week it was all at home. I finished watching Inequality for All and Cutie and the Boxer as I'm expecting the Academy to announce the documentary shortlist this week and I'll finally be able to open up the category for predictions. I also watched Rush for a second time and about an hour's worth of Fast & Furious 6 as well as Saving Mr. Banks and Out of the Furnace, both of which I'll be reviewing very soon. I won't tell you my reaction to either of them, but I will say my wife loved Mr. Banks. Finally, I watched Criterion's new Blu-ray for Robert Altman's Nashville, but I still have all the features to watch and listen to. It was my first time seeing it and, like a lot of classic films from the '70s, it's a film you have...
- 12/1/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
I had a busy week in theaters and at home these past seven days. In theaters I saw The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (review here), Homefront, Oldboy (review coming Tuesday) and Frozen (review here) and then at home it was documentary mania as I watched Herblock, 20 Feet from Stardom, Smash and Grab and The Square. Oh, and then I watched Her at home as well and should have a review of that this coming week. I started watching the Inequality for All documentary late last night, but it proved too late for me to finish it so I'll have to get back to that one shortly, but of all the docs I watched only Smash and Grab wasn't terrific, but that's actually the one Danny Boyle is looking to turn into a feature adaptation. The film is the story of "The Pink Panthers" (not an official title), a group out...
- 11/24/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Could a 2013 Oscar long-listed documentary about America's economic woes impact the outcome of the 2016 presidential election? Its director and famous subject hope so. Last week, I met up at the Four Seasons in Los Angeles with the director and subject of RADiUS-twc's Oscar long-listed documentary feature Inequality for All, Jake Kornbluth and economist/economics professor/former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich, respectively, to discuss the film and its focus: the causes and effects of the widening disparity between the income of America's wealthiest citizens and that of everyone else in the country. "It’s hard not
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- 11/20/2013
- by Scott Feinberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Geared to giving up-and-coming indie filmmakers the tools they need to get their films made and seen, this weekend's Film Independent Forum provided many practical, business-minded takeaways. All the conversations at the documentary panels led back to the vital but soul-crushing topic of financing. Luckily the Documentary Case Studies panel with Frank Evers and Lauren Greenfield (producer and director of "The Queen of Versailles") and Jennifer Chaiken and Jacob Kornbluth (producer and director of "Inequality For All") approached the topic through two success stories, giving filmmakers a glimpse of the light at the end of the tunnel: 1. Hang on to your rights. The panelists focused on the difficulties of scraping together production financing, but they agreed that it worked in their favor not to sign away any of their rights too early. It left things open for them creatively and allowed them to hold out for theatrical distribution. 2. You don’t.
- 10/28/2013
- by Nora Chute
- Thompson on Hollywood
You can vote until November 5th in the first round to select the nominees for 23rd Gotham Independent Film Awards' Audience Award. The 5 nominees will be chosen from your votes and will be invited to attend the Gotham Awards where the winner will be announced live. The second round of voting will begin on November 8, 2013, and will feature the top 5 films from round one. The winner will be announced on December 2, 2013. The finalists -- made up of audience award winners from across the Top 50 Us and Canadian film festivals -- are below. Click here to vote for one of them. 12 Years A Slave A Will For The Woods American Revolutionary Bending Steel Best Kept Secret Blood Brother Bridegroom Desert Runners Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey Far Out Isn't Far Enough Fruitvale Station Gideon's Army Good Ol' Freda Hank And Asha Harana How To Make Money Selling Drugs Inequality For All...
- 10/28/2013
- by Peter Knegt
- Indiewire
It's Amir here, bringing you the latest box office report. Here's a pop quiz for you dear readers: when was the last time that the top film in both wide and limited releases revolved around an old man on a journey to overcome ridiculously difficult obstacles? By my estimation, it was never. On the face of it, saving one's life from the clutches of the sea and saving one's testicles from a vending machine may seem entirely different but both struggles appealed to their audience this weekend nonetheless. Bad Grandpa coasted on the Jackass brand to dethrone Gravity from the top spot, though if we were thinking Alfonso Cuaron's film is going away, we were proven wrong emphatically.
Box Office
01 Bad Grandpa $32 *new*
02 Gravity $20.3 (cum. $199.8) Sandy B & Review
03 Captain Phillips $11.8 (cum. $70) Podcast & Hanks For All Ages
04 The Counselor $8 *new* Podcast
05 Cloudy With Chance Of Meatballs 2 $6.1 (cum. $100.6)
06 Carrie $5.9 (cum. $26)
07 Escape Plan $4.3 (cum.
Box Office
01 Bad Grandpa $32 *new*
02 Gravity $20.3 (cum. $199.8) Sandy B & Review
03 Captain Phillips $11.8 (cum. $70) Podcast & Hanks For All Ages
04 The Counselor $8 *new* Podcast
05 Cloudy With Chance Of Meatballs 2 $6.1 (cum. $100.6)
06 Carrie $5.9 (cum. $26)
07 Escape Plan $4.3 (cum.
- 10/28/2013
- by Amir S.
- FilmExperience
The non-profit arts organization that produces the Film Independent Spirit Awards and Los Angeles Film Festival, otherwise known as Film Independent, announced today the addition of over 20 new panelists. These panelists include our own Editor-in-Chief Dana Harris, Ryan Coogler (writer/director, "Fruitvale Station"), Jaime Patricof (producer, "The Place Beyond the Pines," "Blue Valentine" and "Half Nelson"), Jacob Kornbluth (director, "Inequality for All"), and Matthew Greenfield (Senior Vice-President of Production, Fox Searchlight), to name a few. This marks the 9th edition of the Film Independent Forum held at the Directors Guild of America. The three-day event begins Friday, October 25 with a screening "Dallas Buyers Club," directed by Jean-Marc Vallee, and concludes Sunday, October 27. Following the screening will be a Q&A featuring producers Robbie Brenner and Rachel Winter moderated by Greg Ellwood (Co-Founder and Editor-In-Chief, HitFix) The Forum is currently...
- 10/9/2013
- by Ohad Amram
- Indiewire
Last week, Steve Pond reported that Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell is indeed eligible for the Documentary feature category. The Act of Killing is also eligible. From Pond’s story,...
- 10/7/2013
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
Indiewire's Editor-in-Chief, Dana Harris, sat down for an interview with filmmaker Jacob Kornbluth, and former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, to discuss their eye-opening film "Inequality for All," following a screening at the Ida Documentary Screening Series in Los Angeles. A Special Jury Prize winner at Sundance, the film is currently playing in select theaters. "Inequality for All" looks to raise awareness on the pressing issue of the country's widening economic gap by exploring pivotal political events such as the occupy movement and other financial crises. Watch as award-wining filmmaker, Kornbluth ("Haiku Tunnel," "The Best Thief in the World"), joins activist Reich to consider what they want their audience to come away with from this film. "I'd like for this film to give people a sense of hope," says Reich. Watch the video below. For more on the Ida Documentary Screening series go here.
- 10/4/2013
- by Ohad Amram
- Indiewire
In what is sure to be remembered as this decade's An Inconvenient Truth, Jacob Kornbluth's documentary feature debut Inequality for All tackles the increasingly unbalanced distribution of wealth among America's workers. Developed from the concepts of leading political economist and former Clinton labor secretary Robert Reich, the film uses Reich's wealth and poverty course at Uc Berkeley as the through line by which the history of income inequality is simplified, explained, and exposed.
Inequality for All screened on Thursday, September 26 in Los Angeles to kick off the Ida Documentary ...
Inequality for All screened on Thursday, September 26 in Los Angeles to kick off the Ida Documentary ...
- 10/3/2013
- by krelth
- International Documentary Association
U.S. government workers who find themselves with too much time on their hands today due to the government shutdown can treat themselves to a free movie. The Weinstein Company and Landmark Theatres are offering federal employees and members of the military free tickets to Radius-twc's doc Inequality for All at 13 Landmark Theatres across the country. The deal, announced by The Weinstein Co., is good for Thursday only. Story: Shutdown Special: AMC Will Hand Out Free Popcorn to Federal Employees The film, which premiered at Sundance, follows former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he investigates how the
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- 10/3/2013
- by Rebecca Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The legendary social documentarian, Frederick Wiseman, who made the 1968 fly on the wall documentary about interactions with teachers and their students at Northeast High School, simply entitled, High School, and other similar works entitled, Hospital, about NYC’s Metropolitan Hospital’s Ed, Domestic Violence,Public Housing,The Cool World, about life in a youth gang in Harlem, and Titicut Follies, about the inner workings of a mental institution in Massachusetts. He is probably the reason there are Hipaa privacy laws now in place, however, his films are riveting.
At Berkeley is a 4 hour documentary, as you may guess, goes inside the classrooms, administrative faculty staff meetings, and on campus arts and entertainment performances demonstrating the inner workings of one of the nations top universities. Wiseman quietly and non obtrusively places the camera on the subjects allowing people to be themselves and conduct business as usual without asking any questions. The viewer feels as if they are in the same room with the subjects.
Not surprisingly, many of the vignettes discuss the economics of what it’s like to attend the higher learning institution and the challenges faced to financially run the facility. Other discussions include, the minority viewpoint, how to fight inequality and how to make a difference, former graduates of the university discussing the differences from then and now, the new Facebook generation, a computer programmer who gets a robot to pick up a towel, a professor teaching his class about the concept of time and the laws of physics, e-legs, the lightweight battery powered exoskeleton, which gives paraplegics new legs, and gets them out of the wheelchair and walking onto their feet.The exoskeleton consists of a robotic frame controlled through crutches. The crutches contain sensors; putting forward the right crutch moves the left leg, and vice versa.
The eLEGS battery can enable a user to walk for one day before it needs to be recharged, according to the product’s developer Berkeley Bionics, how ordinary people are responsible for social change, however, do not get the credit they deserve, what drives leaders to make those changes? A class discussing Henry David Thoreau, a janitor cleaning up, people just walking along naturally in the hallways and courtyards, a student crying because she feels guilty that her parents have to work so hard for her to attend the school, priorities of people who spend $30,000 for a new car as opposed to higher learning, the lawnmower on campus, tenure, cancer research, the Free Speech Movement Cafe, television news crews interviewing a student discussing the California budget, and egalitarianism, tai chi, lunges, a tight rope walker. The classroom of Richard Reich, the American political economist, professor, author, and political commentator, who served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997, and star of Inequality for All, discusses the organizations missions, and rewarding honesty.
Other discussions from a researcher on the Hep C virus, the Executive Vice President, layoffs, increase in tuition, salary cuts for faculty, their competitors Yale and Princeton, study groups and racial discrimination, dancing in the courtyard, their sports arena and marching band, military training, police activity, the Bart system, protestors, faces of students on a wall mural, a march held on Oct 7 with students who feel education should be free, the chancellor speaking to the media, the library, supernovas, the international admissions process, and reaching the brightest star, Sirius.
After watching four hours of footage, you feel as if you know your way around the campus without even needing a map, and as if you have received a degree from the University, without having paid the tuition.
Riveting!
The New York Film Festival (Sept. 27-Oct.13) is going on now. Los Angeles' own Rose Kuo (formerly director of the AFI FIlm Festival) has notched it up this year as our local newspaper L.A. Times has pointed out to us in perhaps a somewhat condescending way. Nyff was never a "quaint afterthought", but it was not what the Lincoln Center Film Society offered the trade with new offerings of films you can see in its spring festival New Directors/ New Directions. But this year, it is on the trade's map of top fall film festivals for the first time since 1984 when Blood Simple of the Coen Brothers made the trade realize its great value. Covering for SydneysBuzz in New York is Sharon Abella, an occasional writer for SydneysBuzz. Editor-in-chief of One World Cinema , an internationally-minded website about film, music and travel, Sharon Abella holds multiple degrees in the sciences, and she makes the point that this site would not be possible without the help of God, family, friends, and her life partner, Jon Kilik. We are happy to be able to post her articles on SydneysBuzz.
At Berkeley is a 4 hour documentary, as you may guess, goes inside the classrooms, administrative faculty staff meetings, and on campus arts and entertainment performances demonstrating the inner workings of one of the nations top universities. Wiseman quietly and non obtrusively places the camera on the subjects allowing people to be themselves and conduct business as usual without asking any questions. The viewer feels as if they are in the same room with the subjects.
Not surprisingly, many of the vignettes discuss the economics of what it’s like to attend the higher learning institution and the challenges faced to financially run the facility. Other discussions include, the minority viewpoint, how to fight inequality and how to make a difference, former graduates of the university discussing the differences from then and now, the new Facebook generation, a computer programmer who gets a robot to pick up a towel, a professor teaching his class about the concept of time and the laws of physics, e-legs, the lightweight battery powered exoskeleton, which gives paraplegics new legs, and gets them out of the wheelchair and walking onto their feet.The exoskeleton consists of a robotic frame controlled through crutches. The crutches contain sensors; putting forward the right crutch moves the left leg, and vice versa.
The eLEGS battery can enable a user to walk for one day before it needs to be recharged, according to the product’s developer Berkeley Bionics, how ordinary people are responsible for social change, however, do not get the credit they deserve, what drives leaders to make those changes? A class discussing Henry David Thoreau, a janitor cleaning up, people just walking along naturally in the hallways and courtyards, a student crying because she feels guilty that her parents have to work so hard for her to attend the school, priorities of people who spend $30,000 for a new car as opposed to higher learning, the lawnmower on campus, tenure, cancer research, the Free Speech Movement Cafe, television news crews interviewing a student discussing the California budget, and egalitarianism, tai chi, lunges, a tight rope walker. The classroom of Richard Reich, the American political economist, professor, author, and political commentator, who served in the administrations of Presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter and was Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 1997, and star of Inequality for All, discusses the organizations missions, and rewarding honesty.
Other discussions from a researcher on the Hep C virus, the Executive Vice President, layoffs, increase in tuition, salary cuts for faculty, their competitors Yale and Princeton, study groups and racial discrimination, dancing in the courtyard, their sports arena and marching band, military training, police activity, the Bart system, protestors, faces of students on a wall mural, a march held on Oct 7 with students who feel education should be free, the chancellor speaking to the media, the library, supernovas, the international admissions process, and reaching the brightest star, Sirius.
After watching four hours of footage, you feel as if you know your way around the campus without even needing a map, and as if you have received a degree from the University, without having paid the tuition.
Riveting!
The New York Film Festival (Sept. 27-Oct.13) is going on now. Los Angeles' own Rose Kuo (formerly director of the AFI FIlm Festival) has notched it up this year as our local newspaper L.A. Times has pointed out to us in perhaps a somewhat condescending way. Nyff was never a "quaint afterthought", but it was not what the Lincoln Center Film Society offered the trade with new offerings of films you can see in its spring festival New Directors/ New Directions. But this year, it is on the trade's map of top fall film festivals for the first time since 1984 when Blood Simple of the Coen Brothers made the trade realize its great value. Covering for SydneysBuzz in New York is Sharon Abella, an occasional writer for SydneysBuzz. Editor-in-chief of One World Cinema , an internationally-minded website about film, music and travel, Sharon Abella holds multiple degrees in the sciences, and she makes the point that this site would not be possible without the help of God, family, friends, and her life partner, Jon Kilik. We are happy to be able to post her articles on SydneysBuzz.
- 10/1/2013
- by Sharon Abella
- Sydney's Buzz
Arthouse Audit: 'Enough Said' and 'Metallica Through the Never' Score Solid Limited National Grosses
The weekend's big news: two films played well in multi-hundred theaters early in their release. Fox Searchlight's "Enough Said" nearly placed in the top 10 (#11) in only 227 runs in a quick second week expansion, while revitalized Picturehouse's 3-D "Metallica Through the Never" scored nearly $1.7 million at 305 IMAX locations, although expectations were for a higher opening. The push towards wider and quicker specialized presentations continues unabated. Their success again reveals why slow release patterns will continue to be less the norm. Meanwhile three Sundance films, docs "Inequality for All" (Radius/Weinstein) and "Muscles Shoals" (Magnolia) and horror remake "We Are What We Are" (EOne) performed credibly this weekend. Opening "Metallica Through the Never" (Picturehouse) - Criticwire: B; Metacritic: 61; Festivals include: Toronto 2013 $1,672,000 in 305 theaters; PSA (per screen average): $5,482 After a five-year Picturehouse hiatus, as company founder Bob Berney tried his...
- 9/29/2013
- by Tom Brueggemann
- Thompson on Hollywood
Chicago – One of the more underreported stories of the past year is that income inequality – the gap between the wealthiest one percent in the U.S. versus the rest of the population – is at historic highs. When that balance of power is tilted, the result is documented in the new film, “Inequality for All.”
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Wealth possession, and the power associated with it, is the destroyer of the concept of democracy, according to this film. Not only is the U.S. dealing with these numbers (taxed at record low rates), the country also deals with an information industry that runs counter to the inequality message. The one percenters are gaming the media system to serve their greedy purposes, and then producing information that propagandize that this is the way it ought to be. Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary under President Bill Clinton, narrates the film with telling statistics and anecdotal examples.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
Wealth possession, and the power associated with it, is the destroyer of the concept of democracy, according to this film. Not only is the U.S. dealing with these numbers (taxed at record low rates), the country also deals with an information industry that runs counter to the inequality message. The one percenters are gaming the media system to serve their greedy purposes, and then producing information that propagandize that this is the way it ought to be. Robert Reich, former Labor Secretary under President Bill Clinton, narrates the film with telling statistics and anecdotal examples.
- 9/28/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
There’s lots of talk about economy, but for all the pontificating and bloviating about taxes and jobs and poverty, is there any one person who can explain what happened, how we got here, and how we might fix it? Actually, there is, and his name is Robert Reich, the Former Labor Secretary under President Clinton, Uc Berkeley professor, and author of the book “Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future,” which the new documentary “Inequality For All,” directed by Jacob Kornbluth, is based on. The situation is grim, to be sure, but it’s also deceptively simple, at least in the words of Reich, who makes these concepts particularly easy to understand but also crucially urgent: it’s the middle class we should be focusing on. Despite Reich’s clear cut answers about how the middle class has been systematically oppressed for the past 35 years, he (as well...
- 9/27/2013
- by Katie Walsh
- The Playlist
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich is a popular author and pundit, but in Inequality for All, filmmaker Jacob Kornbluth shows us Reich as a charismatic teacher at U.C. Berkeley. He asks his students to challenge their assumptions about our economy, and how it has evolved in recent years. If viewers can do the same, they will find much food for thought in this clear, well-reasoned film. When he screened it for my class at USC last week, Kornbluth lamented the fact that most media interviewers insist on politicizing his documentary. He believes that income inequality should be everyone’s concern, but liberals don’t find his movie liberal enough, and conservatives feel the same on...
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- 9/27/2013
- by Leonard Maltin
- Leonard Maltin's Movie Crazy
There are documentaries that uncover hitherto unknown shocking facts, and then there are the ones that take what is already known and then package that information in one place for tidy consumption. “Inequality for All” fits neatly into the latter category, but if you’re looking for a streamlined explanation for the mess the U.S. economy’s in, and how we might get out, it’s as good a place to start as any. Director Jacob Kornbluth (“Haiku Tunnel”) seems to be pursuing the formula of “An Inconvenient Truth” to explore wealth inequality in this country: Take someone from the Clinton White House (in.
- 9/26/2013
- by Alonso Duralde
- The Wrap
At 4 feet, 10 inches and a resume long in academic and government posts and scant on big screen experience, Robert Reich may be the most unlikely leading man of the fall movie season. Yet the diminutive former U.S. Secretary of Labor is front and center in “Inequality for All,” serving as a dry-witted ambassador of sorts while guiding audiences through the problems of wealth disparity. The film’s director Jacob Kornbluth said that he knew that he couldn’t make such a dense, data driven film without Reich. He was an admirer of the Uc Berkeley professor’s work as a commentator on.
- 9/26/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
New Release
Metallica Through the Never
R, 1 Hr., 32 Mins.
Metallica, those thrash virtuosos of doom, get the grand 3-D opera they deserve: a godless-apocalypse-meets-Vegas spectacle, full of fireballs and electric chairs. With its hell-bent rhythmic changeups, the music channels a dark freedom, and James Hetfield is still the boyish biker-jock; he teases the crowd into a feeding frenzy of raw metal power. The hybrid concert/fiction film didn’t need its “plot,” with Dane DeHaan as a roadie on a suicide mission. Hetfield and snarly drummer Lars Ulrich are storybook characters enough. A- —Owen Gleiberman
Haute Cuisine
PG-13, 1 Hr., 30 Mins.
Metallica Through the Never
R, 1 Hr., 32 Mins.
Metallica, those thrash virtuosos of doom, get the grand 3-D opera they deserve: a godless-apocalypse-meets-Vegas spectacle, full of fireballs and electric chairs. With its hell-bent rhythmic changeups, the music channels a dark freedom, and James Hetfield is still the boyish biker-jock; he teases the crowd into a feeding frenzy of raw metal power. The hybrid concert/fiction film didn’t need its “plot,” with Dane DeHaan as a roadie on a suicide mission. Hetfield and snarly drummer Lars Ulrich are storybook characters enough. A- —Owen Gleiberman
Haute Cuisine
PG-13, 1 Hr., 30 Mins.
- 9/25/2013
- by EW staff
- EW - Inside Movies
The best movie culture writing from around the internet-o-sphere. Just leave a tab open for us, will ya? “Let’s Get Real About the Cultural Impact of Violence in Media” — Rob Payne adds up the numbers about everyone’s favorite scapegoat in this damning piece for Pajiba. “How I Gave Up on the Film Industry and Did What I Loved” — Filmmaker Jacob Kornbluth (Inequality for All) explains how losing faith in a career he fought hard for resulted in what may be his biggest success yet. “We Are What We Are Director Jim Mickle on How to Make a Successful Cannibal Movie” — Speaking of successes, John Gholson interviews the indie horror maestro about eating people over at Movies.com. “How we made The Wicker Man” — Opting for a detailed history of getting a film together instead of building instructions for your own Wicker Man, director Robin Hardy gets specific about burning down horror expectations. “How...
- 9/25/2013
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
The rich get richer, the poor get the picture, as noted U.S. policy experts Midnight Oil once said. And in America at the outset of the 21st century, the picture for those at the ass end of the wealth distribution spectrum is getting very bleak indeed. As we learn in Inequality for All, earnings for the "1 percent" have doubled in the last 35 years, while wages for workers have diminished dramatically. Former Secretary of Labor (and current University of California, Berkeley, professor) Robert Reich, as informative and self-deprecating as always, examines this gulf. The doc is centered around a lecture to his public policy class and supplemented by interviews with some of these new über-rich as well as Americans in danger of falling through the cracks. Using income tax data going ...
- 9/25/2013
- Village Voice
Title: Inequality for All Radius/TWC Director: Jacob Kornbluth Screenwriter: Jacob Kornbluth Cast: Robert Reich Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 9/11/13 Opens: September 27, 2013 Leave it to the reactionary columnists with The Wall Street Journal to come up with a headline like this one (on September 10th): “The Weak Recovery Explains Rising Inequality, Not Vice Versa.” John B. Taylor holds that ….“tax cuts in the past 30 years are [not] responsible for the widening income distribution.” Our president “blames tax cuts that began under Reagan for today’s slow growth. The data don’t back him up.” Oh, but the data certainly do back up that tax cuts for the rich are [ Read More ]
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- 9/12/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
The Ida is thrilled to announce the initial slate of films for its Ida Documentary Screening Series. Launching September 26 at The Landmark Theater with Inequality for All, the series will screen some of the year’s best documentaries followed by Q&A discussions with filmmakers, moderated by Ida’s Media Partners Dana Harris, Editor-in-Chief of Indiewire and Jon Wiener, Contributing Editor of The Nation, as well as Matt Holzman of Kcrw. The Q&As will be recorded and made available on documentary.org, on the Ida’s YouTube Channel, and will be shared by the ...
- 9/3/2013
- by IDA Editorial Staff
- International Documentary Association
Neill Blomkamp's sci-fi adventure has a lot to tell us about poverty and privilege – but are we ready to listen?
• Peter Bradshaw's review
• Neill Blomkamp video interview
• Neill Blomkamp: 'You'd have to change the human genome to stop wealth discrepancy'
Box office chart-topper Elysium may be set in 2154, but according to its director it's about the here and now. "The movie's meant to be an allegory," says Neill Blomkamp. His film's message: the material inequality that pervades our world today is "an outrage".
Like other recent movies on this topic, from In Time to The Hunger Games, Elysium has struck a chord. Inequality of wealth and income has reached startling proportions, not just in the Us, where Elysium is set, or in South Africa, where Blomkamp is from, but also in Britain. Hence, big-screen cries of outrage such as Blomkamp's elicit plenty of hurrahs. At Sundance 2013, for example,...
• Peter Bradshaw's review
• Neill Blomkamp video interview
• Neill Blomkamp: 'You'd have to change the human genome to stop wealth discrepancy'
Box office chart-topper Elysium may be set in 2154, but according to its director it's about the here and now. "The movie's meant to be an allegory," says Neill Blomkamp. His film's message: the material inequality that pervades our world today is "an outrage".
Like other recent movies on this topic, from In Time to The Hunger Games, Elysium has struck a chord. Inequality of wealth and income has reached startling proportions, not just in the Us, where Elysium is set, or in South Africa, where Blomkamp is from, but also in Britain. Hence, big-screen cries of outrage such as Blomkamp's elicit plenty of hurrahs. At Sundance 2013, for example,...
- 9/2/2013
- by David Cox
- The Guardian - Film News
Watch the new trailer and check out the poster for Radius TWC's Inequality for All documentary directed by Radius TWC distributes the film by Jacob Kornbluth which opens on September 27th, 2013. A passionate argument on behalf of the middle class, Inequality for All features Robert Reich—professor, best-selling author, and Clinton cabinet member—as he demonstrates how the widening income gap has a devastating impact on the American economy. The film is an intimate portrait of a man who's overcome a great deal of personal adversity and whose lifelong...
- 8/8/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
It appears 300: Rise Of An Empire will keep with the original's tradition as a hard R-rating has just arrived for the upcoming sequel which will be hitting theaters next March while today's other three major releases receiving ratings include two PG-13s and a one-time R that won its appeal and has been dropped down to a PG-13. First we have the Sylvester Stallone and Robert De Niro boxing comedy Grudge Match for which I'm expecting a trailer soon as a bootleg version was floating around earlier this week, but was quickly dropped from YouTube. I caught snippets of it as Kevin Hart is seen running around ranting and raving as Sly and Bobby D get in a fight while wearing mo-cap suits, but didn't watch enough to give any general sense of what it will be like. Jason Reitman's Toronto-bound (and most likely Telluride as well) Labor Day...
- 8/7/2013
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Emir Baigazin’s Harmony Lessons won the 39th Seattle International Film Festival’s Best New Director grand jury prize on Sunday [9] as top brass handed out jury and audience awards.Scroll down for full list of winners
The Siff 2013 Best Documentary grand jury prize went to Penny Lane’s Our Nixon and Lucy Walker earned a special jury prize for The Crash Reel, while Kyle Patrick Alvarez took the Best New American Cinema grand jury prize for C.O.G.
In the audience awards, Henk Pretorius’ Fanie Fourie’s Lobola won the Best Film Golden Space Needle Award and Morgan Neville’s Twenty Feet From Stardom took the corresponding documentary prize.
The Best Director Golden Space Needle Award went to Nabil Ayouch for Horses Of God, while best actor was awarded to James Cromwell for Still Mine and best actress to Samantha Morton for Decoding Annie Parker.
The Best Short Film Golden Space Needle Award was presented to [link...
The Siff 2013 Best Documentary grand jury prize went to Penny Lane’s Our Nixon and Lucy Walker earned a special jury prize for The Crash Reel, while Kyle Patrick Alvarez took the Best New American Cinema grand jury prize for C.O.G.
In the audience awards, Henk Pretorius’ Fanie Fourie’s Lobola won the Best Film Golden Space Needle Award and Morgan Neville’s Twenty Feet From Stardom took the corresponding documentary prize.
The Best Director Golden Space Needle Award went to Nabil Ayouch for Horses Of God, while best actor was awarded to James Cromwell for Still Mine and best actress to Samantha Morton for Decoding Annie Parker.
The Best Short Film Golden Space Needle Award was presented to [link...
- 6/9/2013
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
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